Giant Underground Fossil Forests Show Record of Warming James Owen for National Geographic News Huge tracts of prehistoric rain forest ravaged by global warming more than 300 million years ago have been found preserved underneath the U.S. Midwest, according to scientists. The fossilized forests, including one covering 39 square miles (100 square kilometers), were discovered [...]

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Climate change threatens two-thirds of California’s unique plants, study says – Los Angeles Times The state’s plants are at risk of collapse unless they migrate or are moved to refuges, scientists say. Animals may also be separated from plants on which they depend, according to researchers. By Margot Roosevelt, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer June [...]

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BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Tropics insects ‘face extinction’   Many tropical insects face extinction by the end of this century unless they adapt to the rising global temperatures predicted, US scientists have said. Researchers led by the University of Washington said insects in the tropics were much more sensitive to temperature changes than those [...]

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Warming threat worse in tropics – Los Angeles Times   Scientists say many species can’t tolerate small temperature rises. From the Associated Press 11:47 AM PDT, May 5, 2008 WASHINGTON — While global warming is expected to be strongest at the poles, it may be an even greater threat to species living in the tropics, [...]

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Native Seeds Fight Food Shortage and Global Warming : TreeHugger a solution to food production and global warming. The key ideas are: 1. Biodiversity increases the ability of an ecosystem to capture carbon, says Brown University. 2. There are 100′s of economically important native seeds according to Lee and Maggie Arbuckle. 3. Native perennial grasses [...]

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